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Off Topic Good riddance to bad rubbish

Discussion in 'Bristol City' started by AshtonRed, Jun 9, 2023.

  1. AshtonRed

    AshtonRed Well-Known Member

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    <doh><doh>.........looks like another marathon coming up.......<laugh>
     
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  3. oneforthebristolcity

    oneforthebristolcity Well-Known Member

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    Even with all that going on, if it had been possible, I'd still vote Boris in front of Starmer.....that's how bad it is!!!
     
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    Does that say more about you, or Starmer ?, just asking :emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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    I agree with you mate, Boris is a bufoon and prone to self exaggeration but compared to Starmer who is a charlatan, a chameleon rolled into one,I wouldn't even vote for the gutless wonder, I'll await the next flip flop.
     
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    Both I guess........I have standards!! :emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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  7. AshtonRed

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    We all have standards….. we’re City fans.
     
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    Like all perspective PM’s Starmers trying to be all things to all people. When he took over the Party was on its knees, now there’s a chance he’ll be the next PM.
    For Boris add to your description, it would seem he’s also a proven liar to parliament, hardly surprising he’s lied all his life and got away with it.
     
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    I just look at Starmer and shudder but we all have choices, let us hope we all get a leader of which we can be proud, long way to go yet but Rishi Sunak is sinking in his own quogmire.
     
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    I know what you mean, the standard of MP’s these days isn’t great. Social media has a lot to answer for imo. They have to put up with a lot, decent ones are probably put off.
     
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    I believe Boris will be back..
     
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    Can’t see it personally, until the report is published we don’t know exactly what it says, but it was obviously incriminating enough to make him jump before he was pushed. His reaction has made his comeback even more difficult. He has attacked the integrity of parliament itself, quite how even he can wriggle out of that I’m not sure.
     
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    he was shown a draft and and stated he was not guilty of a lot of the things in it ...leader of the inquiry is labour person!
     
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    The balance of the enquiry though is Tory!.
     
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    It's an inherent requirement to be a PM/President etc. Look at Tony Blair....
     
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    To be all things to all people?
     
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    Until the Iraq war debacle I thought Blair and his 'New Labour' were brilliant.
    FINALLY I found a party I could vote for because I actually LIKED them, rather than trying to identify the one I hated the least. It didn't last long.

    As for Boris; he rode high on his charisma. He got sacked from the Daily Telegraph for lying and it didn't stop there. He started off an ardent Remainer (he wrote a strongly-worded pro-EU newspaper article), before spotting a leadership gap in the Tory party and switching sides - a lot was because he wanted to become Prime Minister and rub Cameron's nose in it - they hated each other since their time at Eton Toffs. He seduced Brexit voters with his HUGE banner on the Brexit Battle Bus with his 'Money for the NHS' bollocks - of course it was a lie - it hasn't happened and was never going to.
    His 'Get Brexit Done' logo at the last election was another lie - May's deal was ****e, but Boris's deal was even worse (for the economy). He won the election by a landslide - partly due to conning people with his lies, partly because there are a lot of Tory voters (same as Labour I might add) who would always vote Tory regardless of who is in charge and partly because Corbyn and his thugs were unelectable, forcing people to vote Tory because to have had Corbyn in charge would have sent us back to the mid 1970s (at least Brexit under Boris has only sent us back to the early 1990s).
    The stuff that's coming out about lies during lockdown shouldn't come as any surprise. One of his old teachers commented about him during his school days as being someone with enormous self-importance who truly believed that rules and regulations simply didn't apply to him.
    Good riddance to him - lets hope he fades away (but I suspect its not the last we will hear from him).

    Now, the challenge is to work out from the remaining pillocks, who is likely to screw the country up less than the others? Tough one that......
     
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    I have never voted Labour and I never will, but I thought under Blair initially, and Cool Britannia etc that there was a buzz about the country and a feel good vibe.

    Of course he royally screwed it up later by getting into bed with George Dubya Bush and then lied to the British people and the world with the Iraq invasion and weapons of mass destruction

    He should be a Prime Minister that will be looked back upon favourably by the history books. but because of what he did he won’t be,

    Johnson is in the same boat. He should have been a memorable leader.
    Had a vast majority, but lied, lied and lied again and according to a lot of sources, pays way too much heed to what his Wife thought the country needed. Not a clever idea !

    He and senior ministers knew Covid wasn’t nearly as deadly as the unelected idiots at the WHO would have you believe
    But rather than take us out of the stupid lockdowns, he succumbed to what Knickerless Virgin was doing in Scotland, which were even more draconian measures being put in place.

    So aside from being a liar, he’s also a fool and because of what has happened I’d like to see him banned from politics
     
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    I've lived through governments of all persuasions and realise what a waste of time it's all been.
    In the 70s the Unions held sway, the 3day week, rubbish wasn't collected for weeks and we couldn't even bury our dead. We had the polar opposite in Mrs Thatcher followed by the wet lettuce Major and the bushy tailed Blair.
    Cameron and the Lib pact were ousted by Boris in a landslide.

    Looking back I realise it doesn't matter which bunch of inept clowns we vote for.
     
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